Teachers

(101 votes)   He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(100 votes)   He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(93 votes)   Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Sidney J. Harris
1917-, American Journalist

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(85 votes)   Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(84 votes)   The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

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(76 votes)   What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(75 votes)   He who does not research has nothing to teach.

Proverbs

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(75 votes)   The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori
1870-1952, Italian Educator

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(74 votes)   Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

George Givot

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(70 votes)   Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Henry S. Canby
1878-1961, American Author, Editor

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(70 votes)   Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic

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(69 votes)   He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

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(64 votes)   He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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(63 votes)   A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.

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(63 votes)   Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.

Proverbs

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